Kendra Taira Field (2008-2009) - (Creek) wrote her dissertation for a PhD in History at New York University, titled: "African American Migration From the Deep South to Indian Territory, 1870-1920." Kendra is now an Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at Tufts University. She is now completing her first book, Growing Up with the Country: A Family History of Race and American Expansion. She has received the Huggins-Quarles Award of the Organization of American Histories and has also been awarded fellowships from the Hellman Family Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.